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E*TRADE Financial Corporation (NASDAQ: ETFC) released its Monthly Activity Report for July 2016.

Daily Average Revenue Trades ("DARTs") for July were 147,100, a one percent decrease from June and a two percent decrease from the year-ago period. The Company added 22,899 gross new brokerage accounts in July and ended the month with approximately 3.3 million brokerage accounts — an increase of 387 from June.

Net new brokerage assets were $0.3 billion in the month. During the month, customer security holdings increased four percent, or $7.9 billion, and brokerage-related cash increased by $2.0 billion to $45.0 billion. Bank-related cash and deposits remained flat, ending the month at $5.2 billion. Customers were net sellers of approximately $2.0 billion in securities during the month.

Monthly Activity Data

Jul-16

Jun-16

Jul-15

% Chg. M/M

% Chg. Y/Y

Trading days

20.0

22.0

22.0

N.M.

N.M.

DARTs

147,100

148,941

149,283

(1.2

)%

(1.5

)%

Gross new brokerage accounts

22,899

25,448

29,623

(10.0

)%

(22.7

)%

Gross new stock plan accounts

25,192

23,207

68,648

8.6

%

(63.3

)%

Gross new banking accounts

323

367

391

(12.0

)%

(17.4

)%

Total gross new accounts

48,414

49,022

98,662

(1.2

)%

(50.9

)%

Net new brokerage accounts(1)

387

3,776

(11,877

)

N.M.

N.M.

Net new stock plan accounts

12,095

7,853

52,045

N.M.

N.M.

Net new banking accounts

(1,194

)

(2,356

)

(2,107

)

N.M.

N.M.

Net new accounts

11,288

9,273

38,061

N.M.

N.M.

End of period brokerage accounts(1)

3,277,477

3,277,090

3,189,449

0.0

%

2.8

%

End of period stock plan accounts

1,455,148

1,443,053

1,346,002

0.8

%

8.1

%

End of period banking accounts

328,531

329,725

348,846

(0.4

)%

(5.8

)%

End of period total accounts

5,061,156

5,049,868

4,884,297

0.2

%

3.6

%

Customer Assets ($B)

Security holdings

$

216.7

$

208.8

$

215.7

3.8

%

0.5

%

Sweep deposits

27.5

27.8

20.1

(1.1

)%

36.8

%

Customer assets held by third parties(2)

10.0

8.5

14.6

17.6

%

(31.5

)%

Customer payables (cash)

7.5

6.7

6.5

11.9

%

15.4

%

Brokerage customer assets

261.7

251.8

256.9

3.9

%

1.9

%

Unexercised stock plan customer holdings (vested)

31.9

28.9

42.5

10.4

%

(24.9

)%

Savings, checking and other banking customer assets

5.2

5.2

5.5

0.0

%

(5.5

)%

Total customer assets

$

298.8

$

285.9

$

304.9

4.5

%

(2.0

)%

Net new brokerage assets(3)

$

0.3

$

0.8

$

0.2

N.M.

N.M.

Net new banking assets(3)

0.0

0.0

0.0

N.M.

N.M.

Net new customer assets(3)

$

0.3

$

0.8

$

0.2

N.M.

N.M.

Brokerage related cash

$

45.0

$

43.0

$

41.2

4.7

%

9.2

%

Other customer cash and deposits

5.2

5.2

5.5

0.0

%

(5.5

)%

Total customer cash and deposits

$

50.2

$

48.2

$

46.7

4.1

%

7.5

%

Customer net (buy) / sell activity

$

2.0

$

(1.2

)

$

(1.1

)

N.M.

N.M.

(1)

Net new brokerage and end of period accounts in July 2015 include the closure of 14,604 accounts related to the shutdown of the Company's global trading platform.

(2)

Customer assets held by third parties are held outside E*TRADE Financial and include money market funds and sweep deposit accounts at unaffiliated financial institutions.

(3)

Net new customer assets are total inflows to all new and existing customer accounts less total outflows from all closed and existing customer accounts. The net new banking assets and net new brokerage assets metrics treat asset flows between E*TRADE entities in the same manner as unrelated third party accounts.

Historical metrics and financials can be found on E*TRADE Financial's corporate website at https://about.etrade.com.